Saturday, January 2, 2010

We're supposed to have another snow storm come through our way. I'm wondering...where do we put it?

Omaha is under an emergency because we've already maxed out our budget with the snow crew.

We can not open our back door. Not even enough for me to get a picture. I had to shoot this out our kitchen window. If I tried to go through the other way to clear the snow I can't. It's simply drifted up our fence.

Look at our porch railing in the front. Some of that was from the snow Daddy cleared off of the roof.

I came home early New Years Eve day. I went ahead and got all the Christmas tree decor off and in boxes.

Mica woke up from his nap and told me that we needed to put the tree up again. I remember feeling the same way when I was a kid.

We had pizza rolls, carrots, celery, apples, hummus, spinach artichoke dip and crackers for dinner. We ate out in the living room, which we don't normally do.

Isaak LOVE the hummus! You can see it dripping down his chin! If it were up to him, he'd double dip multiple times!

Daddy made a fire and set up tent's in the living room.

We had plans of camping out, but Isaak never took a nap all day, so we put him down at 7:30 pm.

We got Mica set up in a sleeping bag and mat at 8:30 pm. Daddy put Mica in his room when he said that he couldn't sleep at 10 pm.

I fell fast asleep before Mica at 8:30 pm.

I couldn't help it...days of scooping snow and waking up 2 times a night from Isaak caught up to me. I was tired.

Daddy fell asleep at 11:30 pm. I felt for him staying up by himself when we had plans of camping out in the living room.

We topped off New Years morning with sparkling grape juice and playing in the tents Daddy made.

I do have to say that the boys didn't get into the tents as much as Daddy or I did when we were kids. Isaak sort of acted as if it was a normal part of our living room decor and Mica sat in it for a little bit, but soon moved off onto the couch.

We went out to take care of some snow while the kids were down for an afternoon nap.

I shoveled out the other 1/2 our driveway. Minus the tail end of it. I just ran out of time. There is room to park the other vehicle in that lane now.

Daddy went to Ace Hardware to get a roof rake.

The snow was pretty thick on the roof.

He went up on the roof when he realised it wasn't slick and just started shoveling it off.

Our neighbor across the street asked me if Travis' life insurance policy was up to date? Yes it is, but if he felt in danger he would not of been up there.

Thankfully the kids slept well and we got almost finished. I kept going in to check if they were awake. I also kept yelling out Daddy's name when I couldn't see him in fear that he might have fallen down. He was just on the backside of the roof.

We'll be sore tomorrow I'm sure!

There is more snow to shovel around the front of the house where Daddy shoveled off snow from the roof. A little back tracking needs to be done.

We can't open our back door more then a foot. We have our compost bin outside that door. I hate compost sitting inside the house. The trash stinks faster when it's put in there.

There is a huge drift outside the back door that goes to the top of the gate. Even opening the gate to clear the snow might be a chore.

My Child ID is easy to install on your computer. You install the program, create an account and then add your family’s information to it.

When your not using it, you can use the ID as a digital key chain showing off the pictures of your family members.

I wish I would of known about this before Christmas. I would of gotten 1 if not both of my sister's this device for their kids. My younger sister has little kids my kid's age, and my older sister has a 4th grader and a high schooler.

I loved the fact that it holds what your child is allergic to. Mica had a really bad reaction to penicillin and I'm really allergic to sulfa.

He's not super consistent yet. A lot of times he does well sitting on the pot when I'm getting my makeup on in the morning.

What I really love is that lately he's been telling us when he poops in his diaper. This shows me that he's aware of his act of pooping.

Another big leap on the way towards potty training!

Last night Isaak told me, "Poop". I asked Daddy to check his diaper. I guess it wasn't visible looking down the back of the diaper, so Daddy thought he was clean. When I went to go put his PJ's on...sure enough there was poop in his diaper.

Daddy got pretty annoyed before the holidays because we had a special dinner with my family (adults only). He was annoyed because it was on a BIG football night. He ended up not missing any of it, so everything worked out.

I'm not into football at all. I was raised with all sisters and a dad who could care less about football.

Our niece and nephew's birthday's are right after the holidays. Aunt Angela's been planning their party (she throws one party for them both). We wanted to have it before Grandma Spiehs has her ankle fusion surgery next week.

Angela talked about next Wednesday and this Saturday. We're doing it this Saturday.

I called Travis while he was back at work last night and told him that Angela moved the party to this Wednesday. He was livid. He told me a few times now that he's going over to a co-worker's house to watch some other BIG football game that is on this Wednesday night.

I told him that I forgot. Really I was just pulling his chain. It's easier to mess with somebody over the phone then in person.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

Daddy had to go back into work since he was supposed to work all of today. He went in at 8:30 pm and is still there now (it's 11:30 pm).

I went out and shoveled from 8:30 pm to 10:00 pm.

A plow went down our street, so we had a mound in front of our driveway. We got about 14 inches of snow altogether.

We have 2 retaining walls on both sides of our driveway, so we're running out of room to put snow. We shoveled one lane, and have a two lane driveway.

I listened to the news tonight, and they mentioned that the snow might not melt for two months. I wish we would of shoveled both lanes out. Some of the other lane is shoveled, so I may just need to work on it little bit by little.

Mica and Isaak loved seeing the cat at Aunt Sam's house. I have such bad allergies and was told never to get anything furry. Even the saliva on dogs and cats is bad.

I get bitchy when I get allergic. It's like PMS to me. Towards the end of the night I realized that we couldn't find a really cool ball Santa left for the boys and I got bitchy about it. I was just annoyed that I couldn't find this ball. Then I couldn't find Mica's gloves. I just lost it. Later I saw that I was bitchy!

Earlier that night Isaak got into the kitty litter. It was a mess. Mica found him while the whole family was playing BINGO. Mica said, "Mommy you better come in and see what Isaak is doing!"

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